My Rock of Gibraltar (Not Yours)

Sure, Britain should give the rock back to the Spanish. But why stop there?

Francis Drake setting sail from Plymouth to fight the Spanish Armada it was not. Yet on Monday the British press ran heavy with images of the helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious leaving Portsmouth Naval Base, destination Gibraltar. Madrid is kicking up a fuss, again, over the Rock they have coveted ever since ceding it to Britain "for ever" in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht. And London, says the Times of London, "is drawing up plans to take unprecedented legal action against Spain for imposing additional checks at the...